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Book and bookmark mail! Yay! I ordered a secondhand copy of the cookbook and my sweet friend sent me the amazing Alice bookmark!

“Are you a vegetarian?” you might ask. And the answer is no, I am not. But I was a vegetarian for 12 years of my life. And although I‘ve grown really fond of

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Candy Corn Pizza?!?! I may be sick 🤮🤮🤮

#ChillingPhotoChallenge #candy

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I made only one thing from this cookbook: Carrot Halva. Turned out tasty, but didn‘t set firm enough to pick up in pieces, so I used it to stuff dates. A win, according to the women at book club last night. 😎

In spite of Grady Hendrix‘s comics panel above, these recipes are challenging. There are many steps: it‘s not uncommon for a dish to require 2 days to prepare. Amanda Cohen: “I like it complicated!” Tools I would need to get: a chinois & a Silpat mat. New-to-me ingredients: huitlacoche, vadouvan & Chinese celery. Key techniques: deep frying, smoking, dehydrating (then grinding dehydrated veggies to a powder). An entertaining read, however.

I like Cohen‘s take on Nanaimo bars. 🇨🇦 She fills them with mint ice cream. At the start of the section on frozen desserts, she writes, “I believe with all my heart in the classic formula: cake + ice cream = dessert.”

Good advice. Except where will I find a store that carries Broccoli Ice Cream?

To make Red Pepper Velvet Cake, you‘ve got to juice a bunch of peppers, dehydrate the pulp for 8 hours, then pulverize half of that into a powder in a blender, and pulse the other half into flakes in a food processor. You take the 4 cups of pepper juice and spend an hour reducing it to 1 cup on the stove. Okay, now you have the ingredients you need to proceed with mixing the cake batter. Innovative, and too much work, but I‘d like to taste it.

I‘m pretty adventurous in the kitchen, but there aren‘t many things in this cookbook that I‘d like to try. Case in point: a replacement for socarrat, the toasted rice layer from the bottom of traditional paella. Restaurateur Amanda Cohen creates it separately with olive oil, corn syrup, sugar, salt, smoked paprika and Rice Krispies. Then adds it to her paella. Nope.

This cookbook makes vegetable cooking accessible AND gourmet! Plus it's a #comic

But again @Litsy Grady Hendrix was a secondary writer on this. It's not cool that you listed the actual author last. You gotta fix this.

This is up there with Relish as one of my favorite cookbooks. We need more #comic cookbooks! #comics #graphicnovels

Btw @Litsy the top result for this book lists Grady Hendrix first over his wife Chef Amanda Cohen and artist Ryan Dunlavey. While Mr. Hendrix's input was undoubtedly valuable, he shouldn't be listed before the main creators.

Twofer post today! I inherited this cook book when a roommate moved out a couple of years ago. Should really use it more. #Freebie #CookbookFoodThemedBook #riotgrams

Going through some cookbooks for Super Bowl Sunday food ideas, including this *GRAPHIC NOVEL COOKBOOK*. I've said it before and I'll say it again: graphic novel cookbooks are the future. (sorry this photo looks so tacky, that's what happens when I get cocky and dick around with filters and stickers) #veggie4life #happyfridaynightdarlings